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Language:
English.

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to
include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained.

William Cheney was born in 1907 in Los Angeles. He worked as a shipping clerk for
Dawson's Bookshop from 1929 to 1932, and then went to work for Thomas Perry Stricker,
under whose tutelage he learned to print. Cheney's first printed book was
A Voyage to Trolland (1933). Cheney briefly owned his own press
which he operated until he went to work as an engineer for Douglas Aircraft from 1941 to
1946. From 1946 to 1947, Cheney worked for the
Artesia News.
In 1948 he worked briefly for Muir and Watts, and also for Saul and Lillian Marks'
Plantin Press before buying his own printing press and starting to print commercially.
From 1962 to 1974, Cheney printed materials for the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library and for Lawrence Clark Powell while working in the gatehouse on the Clark Library
grounds.

Arrangement

The collection has been arranged in the following series:

Series I. Catalogued miniature books (Box 1)

Series II. Correspondence and ephemera from
the collection of H. Richard Archer (Boxes 2-4)

Series III. Correspondence and Cheney
ephemera (Boxes 5-6, 10-12, 16)

Series IV. Western Books ephemera (Box 7)

Series V. UCLA ephemera (Box 8)

Series VI. Ephemera (Box 9)

Series VII. Other presses'
ephemera and correspondence (Boxes 13-15)

Series VIII. Grant Dahlstrom correspondence
(Boxes 17-19)

Series IX. Broadsides ephemera (Box 20)

Series X. Gifts from Dick
Zumwinkle's collection (Box 21)

Series XI. Woodblocks for
Five
Italian Proverbs
by Mel Fowler (Peregrine Press).

Scope and Content

This collection consists of printed miniature books, correspondence, ephemera,
broadsides, and woodblocks related to William Murray Cheney and his activities as a
printer in Los Angeles. It also includes materials related to other Los Angeles area
printers, presses, and bibliophiles such as Grant Dahlstrom, H. Richard Archer, the Auk
Press, and the Hippogryph Press.

Container List

Series I.
Catalogued Miniature Books

Box 1, Folder 1.

Offhand Display of the Types in our Basement, 1949 (Cheney)

Box 1, Folder 2.

A Typesticker's Tract on Typefaces, 1949 (Cheney)

Box 1, Folder 3.

Survivormanship Certificate, 1949

Box 1, Folder 4.

The Gettysburg Address of Abe Lincoln, 1961.
An Address at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, 1949

Booklets (
Type Specimen Book 1950-51, and proofs;
Rare and Important Books in the History of Science, 1952;
Essences of Britain, 1952 by L.C. Powell; This I Believe, 1953 by Jake Zeitlin;
Tall Skinny Books and Truffles, 1952;
First National Exhibition of Prints, 1952)

The Southwest Broadsides printed for the friends of Lawrence Clark Powell, 1953-58 (Ms.)

Box 15, Folder 1.

Bookhaven Press

Box 15, Folder 2.

Castle Press

Box 15, Folder 3A.

Ted Freedman

Box 15, Folder 3B.

Ted Freedman

Box 15, Folder 4.

Peregrine Press

Box 15, Folder 5.

Raccoon Press

Box 15, Folder 6.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge

Box 15, Folder 7.

Unclassified miscellaneous

Box 15, Folder 8.

Miscellaneous ephemera

Box 15, Folder 9.

Miscellaneous pamphlets

Box 15

Christmas ornament (seashell) and box of seashells from Dawson's (put in small boxes)

Series VIII.
Grant Dahlstrom Correspondence

Box 17, Folder 1.

Far Afield #9 (1954-55),
#17(1963)

Box 17, Folder 2.

Various correspondence to Cheney

Box 17, Folder 3.

Cheney to Dahlstrom, undated

Box 17, Folder 4.

Dawson's to Cheney 1948-1951

Box 17, Folder 5.

Cheney to Dahlstrom, 1949

Box 17, Folder 6.

Cheney to Dahlstrom, 1950

Box 17, Folder 7.

Cheney to Dahlstrom, 1951-1960

Box 17, Folder 8.

Dahlstrom to Cheney 1951-1952

Box 17, Folder 9.

Cheney to Powell, 1951-1952

Box 17, Folder 10.

Cheney to Dahlstrom, 1956-1957

Box 18, Folder 1.

Illustrations

Box 18, Folder 2.

Americas, December 1968 (magazine and correspondence)

Box 18, Folder 3.

Undated correspondence

Box 18, Folder 4.

1950's

Box 18, Folder 5.

1960's

Box 18, Folder 6.

Early 1970's

Box 18, Folder 7.

Late 1970's

Box 18, Folder 8.

1980's

Box 18, Folder 9.

Freedman and Thomas and Palmer and Philpott

Box 18, Folder 10.

Various to Dahlstrom

Box 19, Folder 1.

Acquisitions data

Box 19, Folder 2.

Empty envelopes: dated

Box 19, Folder 3.

Empty envelopes: undated

Box 19, Folder 4.

Letter NOT to or from Cheney

Box 19, Folder 5.

1949

Box 19, Folder 6.

1950

Box 19, Folder 7.

1951

Box 19, Folder 8.

1952

Box 19, Folder 9.

1953

Box 19, Folder 10.

1954

Box 19, Folder 11.

1955

Box 19, Folder 12.

1956

Box 19, Folder 13.

1957

Box 19, Folder 14.

1958

Box 19, Folder 15.

1959

Box 19, Folder 16.

1960

Box 19, Folder 17.

1961

Box 19, Folder 18.

1962

Box 19, Folder 19.

1963

Box 19, Folder 20.

1964

Box 19, Folder 21.

1966

Series IX.
Ephemera: broadsides (flat box)

Box 20

Ornament sample sheet (sticker of George Rice and Sons, Los Angeles);
The Art of Legerdemain (Grant L. Hutchinson), UCSB, 1966;
The Months Twelve (Thomas Tusser);
Books (keepsake for the preview of the exhibition
Lawton Kennedy's Golden Jubilee, 1963);
On the Ladies Hoops and Hats Now Worn: An Epigram; Proclamation Providing for the Government of British Columbia ..., 1858 (Rounce & Coffin keepsake, 1954);
Christmas in Caxton's Time (laid-in letter from Ruth Adomeit);
I Am the Printing Press; A Fragment for the Birth of God (Brother Antoninus), 1958; Clark Library ephemera (5 items);
A Love Poem (Theocritus).

Series X.
Ephemera (gifts from Dick Zumwinkle's collection)

Box 21, Folder 1.

Correspondence

Box 21, Folder 2.

Christmas cards

Box 21, Folder 3.

Ephemera

Box 21

In envelopes: business cards; small items; postcards;
Little Gentile; A Deseret Romance of Captive and Exile in the New Jerusalem by Mignonette, 1879;
How to Master Practical English Conversation in Two Months (H. Hayashi);
Welsh People of California 1849-1906 (David Hughes);
Modern Gaelic A Basic Grammar, 1945 (Alexander Nicolson);
Irish Grammar (Christian Brothers).

Series XI.
Woodblocks for Five Italian Proverbs by Mel Fowler

Box 21

Original woodblocks for
Five Italian Proverbs (Mel Fowler; Peregrine Press) (wrapped in acid free paper): "Wife and Oxen", "Fish and Guests", "Do As I Say", "Scarecrow".
Plus small box with 6 blocks.